ed. note: As the end of the school year approaches, and we get geared up for summer let's look back with Amy T. (Mom to two kinders now) as she get's excited for the start of another year of preschool.
As a parent in a parent participation preschool, starting school again is not only exciting for my kids, but for me as well! I have been missing the other parents that I have gotten to know so well last year in the 2's class and then I had a chance to meet some new parents during summer school. So this year in the 3's class we will all be together and I can't wait to get back! I have come to rely on the school community very much - the parents are some of my closest friends and the teachers' experience and knowledge about child development has forever changed me as a parent.
We started at Explorer Preschool when the twins were only 19 months old in a Together Time for Parents and Toddlers class. A few other Gemini Crickets families were enrolling their twins, as well as several close friends of mine who had a child the same age. It was a great way to get out with the kids in a preschool setting with other moms that I knew while getting some much needed parent education in the process. Being a former teacher myself, I just couldn't get enough of this school! I felt completely welcomed there and I embraced the child-centered play-based philosophy immediately. I had so many questions about my own toddlers' development and throw in the fact that I had TWO toddlers going through the exact SAME stages at the SAME time made this program a sanity life saver.





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